London Review Bookshop Podcast
Episodes
The 7th Function of Language: Laurent Binet and Christopher Tayler
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Laurent Binet, who won the Prix Goncourt du premier roman for his first novel HHhH, was at the shop to read from and discuss his second, The 7th Funct...
Future Sex: Emily Witt and Katherine Angel
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Future Sex, Witt captures the experiences of going to bars alone, online dating, and hooking up with strangers. After moving to San Francisco, she ...
Priestdaddy: Patricia Lockwood and Dawn Foster
23 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Lockwood was at the shop to read from her new memoir, Priestdaddy (Penguin), a hilarious account of growing up with a Catholic priest for a f...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Ocean Vuong and Max Porter
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ocean Vuong was in conversation with Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers (Faber and Faber), and read from his eagerly-awaited first...
Leonora Carrington: Marina Warner and Chloe Aridjis
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the publication of the first complete edition of Leonora Carrington's short fiction,The Debutante and Other Stories (Silver Press) and the republic...
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Though he was admired by some of the liveliest cultural figures of the twentieth century, David Jones is not known or celebrated in the way that Eliot...
The Zoo of the New: Nick Laird and Don Paterson
25 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and b...
Testosterone Rex: Cordelia Fine and Caroline Criado-Perez
18 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls? Well, no, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne Cordelia Fine ...
4 3 2 1: An Evening with Paul Auster
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Auster discussed his first novel in seven years, the extraordinary 4 3 2 1 (Faber) in which a single individual, born in 1947 in Newark, follows ...
Alice Oswald on Ted Hughes
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly 80 years, New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary a...
Tessa Hadley on Eudora Welty
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly 80 years, New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary a...
Hisham Matar on Jorge Luis Borges
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly 80 years, New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary a...
First Love: Gwendoline Riley and Katherine Angel with Joanna Biggs
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gwendoline Riley was at the bookshop to talk about her new novel, First Love, an exploration of marriage as battleground. Anne Enright described her p...
Money is a Feminist Issue: Ann Pettifor and Ellie Mae O'Hagan
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Money makes the world go round: but what is it really? And how is it produced? Above all, who controls its production, and in whose interests? Money i...
The End of Eddy: Édouard Louis and Tash Aw
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Édouard Louis was born into poverty in northern France, as Eddy Belleguele, in 1992. His autobiographical novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, newly...
Grand Hotel Abyss: Stuart Jeffries and Sarah Bakewell
14 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Grand Hotel Abyss is a majestic group biography exploring who the Frankfurt School were and why they matter today. Combining biography, philosophy and...
The Dream of Enlightenment: Anthony Gottlieb and Julian Baggini
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
'Never has the story been told so well,' said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, a history of Western philosophy ...
The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East
31 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Hardy worked for more than 20 years as a Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service. In his new book, The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Lega...
I Must be Living Twice: Eileen Myles and Olivia Laing
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Icon of radical American Letters Eileen Myles has produced more than 20 volumes of fiction, memoir and poetry over the past three decades, a body of w...
Tidings: Ruth Padel and Sarah Howe
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Ruth Padel reads from and discusses her new long poem, 'Tidings', a Christmas tale featuring a little girl, a homeless man and a fox,...
‘Wonders Will Never Cease’: Robert Irwin and Nicholas Lezard
06 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned arabist and regular LRB contributor Robert Irwin was in the shop to read from and talk about his latest novel 'Wonders Will Never Cease' (Ded...
The Levellers' Revolution: John Rees and Diane Purkiss
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The revolutionary Leveller movement grew out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the English Civil Wars. They were central fi...
The Age of Jihad: Patrick Cockburn and Rachel Shabi
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Cockburn discuss his latest book 'The Age of Jihad' (Verso) with 'Guardian' journalist Rachel Shabi, author of 'Not the Enemy: Israel's Jew...
John Berger at 90: the Verso podcast in collaboration with London Review Bookshop
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Poet, essayist, novelist, broadcaster, artist and film-maker John Berger celebrates his 90th birthday this month. To mark the occasion we have declare...
Rebel Crossings: Sheila Rowbotham and Melissa Benn
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Rowbotham was one of the leading figures behind the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain and is one of the best-loved feminists of our time...
No Art and the Hatred of Poetry: Ben Lerner and Andrea Brady
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Lerner and Andrea Brady in conversation at the London Review Bookshop. Lerner is a novelist, poet and critic, whose most recent collection is No A...
Mark Greif and Brian Dillon
13 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From the tyranny of exercise to the crisis of policing, via the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), Mark Greif’s Against Everything is...
The State of Turkey: Ece Temelkuran, Kaya Genç and Daniel Trilling
27 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of the failed military coup, two of Turkey’s most prominent young writers discuss Turkey, its past, present and future. Ece Temelku...
'Prac Crit' Poetry Launch: with Howe, Capildeo, Waldron, Villanueva and McLane
13 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this podcast of poetry 'up close' with 'Prac Crit' founding editor and winner of the T.S Eliot Prize, Sarah Howe. Four recently featured poe...
Sarah Moss and Max Porter
30 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Sarah Moss reading from and talking about her fifth novel 'The Tidal Zone' (Granta) an exploration of parental love, illness and recovery. S...
Riot. Strike. Riot: Joshua Clover and Nina Power on the New Era of Uprisings
23 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an 'age of riots' as the struggle of people versus state and capital has ta...
Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller
15 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Curator Gareth Evans and scholar Esther Leslie discussed the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, published in *[The Story...
Flaneuse; Women Walk the City: Lauren Elkin and Brian Dillon
08 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The flaneur – an almost invariably male idler dawdling through city streets with no apparent purpose in mind – is familiar to us from the works of...
George Monbiot and John Lanchester: How Did We Get into This Mess?
07 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast George Monbiot and John Lanchester discuss Monbiot’s latest book 'How Did We Get into this Mess?' (Verso) and assess the state we ...
Geoff Dyer: White Sands
29 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In his latest book White Sands (Canongate) inveterate traveller, novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer investigates, through ten journeys to places as dist...
Darian Leader and Tom McCarthy on 'Hands'
09 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Psychoanalyst Darian Leader was at the shop to present his latest book 'Hands: What We Do with Them and Why' (Hamish Hamilton), in conversation with t...
Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller: The Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop
07 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Esther Leslie, Marina Warner and Michael Rosen join Gareth Evans to disc...
The Argonauts: Maggie Nelson and Olivia Laing
25 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, listen to Maggie Nelson in conversation with author Olivia Laing in the bookshop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Hamlet Fold On Fold: Gabriel Josipovici with Charles Nicholl
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Josipovici came to the bookshop to discuss his new book, Hamlet Fold on Fold, a scene-by-scene examination of Hamlet resisting grand interpret...
Benedict Anderson's Legacy: 'A Life Beyond Boundaries': with Tariq Ali, Laleh Khalili & T.J. Clark
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast listen to a discussion chaired by Tariq Ali, celebrating the life and work of historian and sociologist Benedict Anderson, who died in...
'Respectable': Lynsey Hanley and Dawn Foster
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be middle class or working class? How does class affect us? Lynsey Hanley and Dawn Foster came to the bookshop to discuss Hanley'...
Seymour Hersh with Adam Shatz: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
21 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Seymour Hersh has been a towering presence in American journalism for nearly 50 years. In 1970 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his articles exposing the...
Mary Beard in discussion with James Davidson
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard in discussion about her latest book, *[SPQR][1]* (Profile), in our special off-site event at Senate House. ...
'God is No Thing': Rupert Shortt and Rowan Williams
29 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rupert Shortt in discussion with Dr Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, on Shortt's new book *God is No Thing*. Even though parts of the W...
'Raptor: A Journey Through Birds': James Macdonald Lockhart and Tim Dee
03 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
James Macdonald Lockhart's first book *[Raptor][1]*, (HarperCollins) documents a series of journeys in search of each of Britain's breeding birds of p...
'Beethoven for a Later Age': Edward Dusinberre and James Jolly
02 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When asked about the meaning of the late string quartets Beethoven famously remarked 'Oh those are not for you, they are for a later age.' Has that la...
'Lean Out': Dawn Foster
21 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Lean Out (Repeater Books) writer, journalist and LRB contributor Dawn Foster takes issue with the corporate-style feminism outlined in Sheryl Sandb...
Nicotine: Gregor Hens in conversation with Will Self
12 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Gregor Hens discussed his new book Nicotine with Will Self. Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the...
The Art of Short Fiction: Helen Simpson and Marina Warner
07 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Marina Warner wears many hats, as cultural critic, mythographer, historian and essayist, but one of her best-fitting hats is her writer of short ficti...
Edna O’Brien talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her new novel ‘The Little Red Chairs’
30 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A new novel from Edna O'Brien is without question a major literary event, and *The Little Red Chairs* (Faber) is her first for a decade. A hunted war ...
1606: James Shapiro and Charles Nicholl
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years after the publication of his highly acclaimed and prize-winning 1599 James Shapiro moves the Shakespeare story on to 1606, the year of *King...
Joanna Walsh and Claire-Louise Bennett: Hotel x Pond
17 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Claire-Louise Bennett and Joanna Walsh met at the London Review Bookshop to read from and discuss their new books, Pond (Fitzcarraldo Editions) and Ho...
Ferrante Fever: Ann Goldstein, Joanna Biggs, Lisa Appignanesi and Alex Clark
02 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Ferrante's translator, Ann Goldstein, was joined by Joanna Biggs, Lisa Appignanesi and Alex Clark to discuss the appeal and mystery of the enigm...
Is There Such A Thing As Italian Cuisine?
01 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dino Joannides, consummate food fanatic, bon viveur and author chaired a panel of writers and chefs to discuss the question: 'Is there such a thing as...
Trans: Juliet Jacques with Chloe Aridjis
29 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a Guardian column....
Brian Dillon and Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin
24 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Seventy-five years ago, on 26 September 1940, perhaps the 20th century's greatest cultural critic died in a small town on the Spanish border as he att...
Danny Dorling and Dawn Foster on inequality
22 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford University and, according to Simon Jenkins 'geographer royal by appointment to the left' was at the...
Alexandra Harris and Frances Spalding: 'Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies'
16 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Harris, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool University, was at the shop to talk about her latest book Weatherland (Thames and...
Chatto Poets: Liz Berry, Sarah Howe and Helen Mort
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Three of the best new poets in years were reading in the Bookshop. Helen Mort’s *[Division Street][1]* (Chatto) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot P...
Granada: The Light of Andalucía, with Steven Nightingale and Robert Irwin
16 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Nightingale's Granada: The Light of Andalucía (Nicholas Brealey) is a rhapsodic celebration of one of Spain's most beautiful and fascinating c...
Etgar Keret in Conversation with Naomi Alderman
13 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli author Etgar Keret has been described by Clive James as 'one of the most important writers alive', by Salman Rushdie as 'A brilliant writer .....
Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling: Black Apple of the Vorrh
09 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Two very different books, Iain Sinclair’s Black Apples of Gower and Brian Catling’s The Vorrh share a measure of common ground: the Cave of Origin...
Carcanet New Poetries VI
07 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two decades Carcanet’s New Poetries anthologies have been discovering the best new poets in English, and have provided readers with th...
The Story of Alice: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst & Vanessa Tait
30 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Alice in Wonderland is 150 years old this year. To celebrate her anniversary we have invited Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature...
On Elizabeth Bishop: Colm Tóibín and Ruth Padel
19 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In On Elizabeth Bishop novelist and essayist Colm Tóibín provides a deeply personal meditation on one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and...
Curationism: David Balzer and Zoe Pilger
30 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
'The more conscious a work of art is of its audience, the more curated it becomes.'‘Curation’ has become a buzzword, applied to everything from mu...
Curiosity: Alberto Manguel and John Sutherland
29 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer, translator, editor and critic, but most of all, he is a reader. In his latest book Curiosity (Yale) Manguel guid...
After the Election: A Debate
27 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The May General Election looks likely to be the closest in a generation. But what happens after it? The gap between the two main parties is narrower t...
Voices for the Voiceless: Elena Poniatowska and Michael Schmidt
17 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Poniatowska’s work, in both fiction and journalism, has always been devoted to giving a voice to the voiceless, the disenfranchised and the op...
Pedigree Mongrel: An Evening with Jonathan Meades
09 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and film-maker Jonathan Meades joined us at the Bookshop to present and discuss *Pedigree Mongrel* (Test Centre), a new album composed of speci...
Making It Up: Kirsty Gunn and Deborah Levy
24 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Short stories don't have to be like short stories. They can be experiences, visitations, slices of events or part revelations of a truth or a lie. Kir...
Katharine Norbury and Blake Morrison in Conversation
18 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Katharine Norbury's affecting memoir The Fish Ladder (Bloomsbury) deals with grief, recovery and the redemptive power of stories and journeys. Abandon...
Patrick Cockburn on the Rise of Islamic State
05 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Cockburn, regular contributor to the LRB and Middle East correspondent for the Independent, is, according to Seymour Hersh, 'Quite simply, the...
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange: Robert Irwin in conversation with Marina Warner
21 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Islamic scholar Robert Irwin joined us at the Bookshop in discussion with mythographer Marina Warner about a groundbreaking new translation of Tales o...
The White Review Presents an Evening with Chris Kraus
12 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, most recently Summer of Hate, and two books of art and cultural criticism. The New York Observer describes h...
An Evening with James Ellroy
24 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James Ellroy’s hardboiled, idiosyncratic explorations of Los Angeles police corruption and midcentury Washington power politics have earned him a wo...
Rising Ground: Place Writing Now
18 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Writing about place – a sub-genre of travel writing that subverts it by being about staying put, rather than moving – has been enjoying an extraor...
Some Luck: Jane Smiley
04 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When I was in eighth grade my history teacher wrote on my report card: “She only does what she wants to do.” She thought that was a bad thing, and...
‘Inequality and the 1%’: Danny Dorling in conversation with Kate Pickett
21 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Our top 1% take 15% of all income. That’s the highest share of anywhere in Europe. Our bottom fifth are the poorest in Europe. In Inequality and the...
The Establishment: Owen Jones
16 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In 'The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It' (Allen Lane) Owen Jones analyses the people and institutions that govern our lives – governmen...
33 Artists in 3 Acts: Sarah Thornton and Isaac Julien
13 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Leading sociologist of art [Sarah Thornton][1] goes behind the scenes with 33 living artists including Ai Weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman and...
Labyrinth: Will Self and Mark Wallinger
30 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In what may well be the largest work of public art in history, Turner prize-winner Mark Wallinger placed a uniquely designed labyrinth in each of Lond...
Everything Flows: A Celebration of Vasily Grossman
17 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Vasily Grossman, now widely regarded as the greatest Russian novelist of the 20th century, died 50 years ago this month. The author of the remarkable ...
Private Island: James Meek
16 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James Meek came to the bookshop to talk about his new book, Private Island (Verso), a scathing assessment of the last two decades’ privatisation of ...
Shark: An Evening with Will Self
11 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Will Self’s latest novel Shark explores the hidden history of the late 20th century, taking in the American invasion of Cambodia, the sinking of the...
An Evening with Karl Ove Knausgaard
05 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six autobiographical novels, published in Norway between 2009 and 2011 under the series title *Min Kamp* (‘My Struggle’) h...
How to be Both: Ali Smith in conversation with Alex Clark
02 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Smith has been described by Kate Atkinson as ‘one of the few contemporary writers ploughing a genuinely modernist furrow.’ Her latest novel *h...
Wittgenstein Jr: Lars Iyer and Ray Monk
28 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
'Who has the temerity to call themselves a philosopher? The word “philosopher" is an honorific. It should be bestowed upon you by others.' Lars Iyer...
Can't and Won't: An Evening with Lydia Davis
27 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
‘It's a bit mysterious, but somehow the emotion I feel at the heart of whatever I'm writing comes through, usually by my not insisting on it.’ Lyd...
H is for Hawk: Helen Macdonald and Tim Dee
08 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Macdonald and Tim Dee came to the Bookshop to talk about birds, and about writing about birds. Radio producer Tim Dee propelled himself into the...
The Darkest Days: Douglas Newton and Christopher Clark
04 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
As the world commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War historian Douglas Newton recounts the hidden history of Britain’s decision ...
The Ranters: Nigel Smith in conversation with Stephen Sedley
23 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Smith, currently Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton, was in conversation about the thought, literature and legacy of the Ra...
Correspondences: Anne Michaels and Gareth Evans
16 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Best known in Britain for her award-winning novel Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels is also an acclaimed poet. Her latest collection, Correspondences, sh...
Another Great Day at Sea: Geoff Dyer
09 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Dyer’s latest book Another Great Day at Sea (Visual Editions), illustrated with the photographs of Chris Steele-Perkins, recounts daily life a...
The Empathy Exams: Leslie Jamison and Olivia Laing
08 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie Jamison’s essays deal with illness, art, running, loss, the female body and everything else besides. She joined us at the shop to discuss her...
‘Mapping It Out’: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tom McCarthy
23 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
'The first thing you find out in any textbook about maps is that they don't work. There's no such thing as a good map.'What is a map? And what is a ma...
Chris Marker: Writing the Image - with Chris Darke and Brian Dillon
18 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Film-maker, graphic designer, animator, cartoonist, photographer, internet and new media pioneer, installationist, novelist, critic, publisher – the...
The Perfect Theory: Pedro G Ferreira and Marcus du Sautoy
10 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Almost a century after Einstein first proposed it, the full ramifications of the General Theory of Relativity are still being debated. Pedro Ferreira ...
The Blazing World: Siri Hustvedt with Sarah Thornton
29 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In Siri Hustvedt’s latest novel The Blazing World (Sceptre) artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from...
Aimé Césaire’s Return to my Native Land: John Berger in conversation with David Constantine
27 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Berger came to the Bookshop to celebrate the life and work of Aimé Césaire on the occasion of Archipelago's reissue of Césaire's long poem Cah...